Queensland’s adult sentencing laws for young offenders: what the reforms actually did. For most of Queensland’s legal history, a child who committed a serious offence was sentenced as a child. The Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld) placed rehabilitation at the centre of the sentencing exercise, required courts to treat detention as a measure of last… Continue reading Queensland Expands Adult Sentencing to Youth – Implications for Justice and Community
Category: Laws
Motor Dealers Winding Back Speedometers in Queensland: The Role of the Office of Fair Trading
Odometer fraud in Queensland: the law, the regulators, and what buyers can do. A car with 80,000 kilometres on the clock is worth more than the same car with 160,000. That simple fact is what makes odometer tampering profitable and persistent. It is also what makes it illegal under multiple overlapping laws, and why both… Continue reading Motor Dealers Winding Back Speedometers in Queensland: The Role of the Office of Fair Trading
New QLD Offence of Coercive Control
Queensland now has a standalone coercive control offence. Here is what it means. On 26 May 2025, coercive control became a criminal offence in Queensland. The new section 334C of the Criminal Code Act 1899 (Qld) makes it an offence, carrying a maximum of 14 years imprisonment, for a person to engage in a course… Continue reading New QLD Offence of Coercive Control
Claim Farming Defeated? Brisbane Magistrate Fines Liquidated Firm $1 Million
A Brisbane Magistrate has fined Accident Management Solutions $1 million in Queensland’s first successful claim farming prosecution under the 2019 CTP reforms. The judgment marks a turning point in claim farming enforcement.
Double Demerits in QLD
In Queensland, double demerit points apply all year round, not just at holiday periods. Under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Driver Licensing) Regulation 2021 (Qld), sections 258 to 261, a second or later offence within one year in four categories doubles the points: speeding more than 20 km/h over the limit, mobile phone… Continue reading Double Demerits in QLD
What Are the Legal Consequences For Refusing a Breath Test?
Refusing a breath test is almost never the better option. People do it for all sorts of reasons. Some panic. Some think it will prevent a result being used against them. Some have heard, somewhere, that the police cannot charge you without a reading. The consequences depend on which refusal is charged. Refusing the initial… Continue reading What Are the Legal Consequences For Refusing a Breath Test?
New laws proposed to double the monitoring time of child sex offenders in Queensland
Queensland’s child sex offender monitoring regime, and what the 2023 amendments changed. The law governing what happens to serious sexual offenders after their custodial sentence ends has always been contested territory. Two interests collide directly: the community’s right to protection from people who have offended against children, and the legal system’s requirement that ongoing restrictions… Continue reading New laws proposed to double the monitoring time of child sex offenders in Queensland